Yes!  It does say 'Fill' on the mode line ('Org Fill' in fact because I'm working with the org mode).
How do I correct this?
Many thanks


On 9/7/09, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
At Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:19:30 +0200 bar tomas <bartomas@gmail.com> wrote:


> I think I explained my problem badly.
> My problem is that although my buffer occupies all the emacs window, the
> lines don't wrap at the windows edge. They wrap quite a distance before (at
> about half the window). Is there a solution to this?


Perhaps you have auto-fill-mode enabled.  Do you see the word

"Fill" in the mode line?

allan